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Top Posts & Pages
- Buster ... Shemp, Moe and Larry - Cops and Soup to Nuts
- The Artist Locations Part 3, Harold Lloyd, and Safety Last!
- Buster and the Three Stooges at the Columbia Ranch - Part 2
- About Silent Locations
- Stan, Ollie, and Harold - a Drive Through Bunker Hill
- How Harold Lloyd Filmed Safety Last!
- Help Please? - Silent Jailbreak - SOLVED
- Hollywood 1926 - The Big Picture and How the Pieces Fit
- The Artist - Locations, Chaplin, and Pickford
- The Artist Locations Part 4, Bradbury, Chaplin, and Lloyd
Author Interviews – Reviews
- Academy Interview July 2011
- AMPAS Lecture on The General
- City Brights SF Gate Review
- Publishers Weekly Review
- KPCC Interview
- Interview on Movie Mom
- Philadelphina Inquirer
- Los Angeles Times interview
- Los Angeles Magazine Review
- MOMI article on New York and Speedy
- New York Times (see page 5)
- Author’s Modern Times Program
- Wall Street Journal
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Recent Posts
- A Tale of Two Train Wrecks (and One Airport) – by Buster Keaton
- Bones of the Past – the Bones TV Pilot and Buster Keaton
- Hollywood 1926 – The Big Picture and How the Pieces Fit
- How Harold Lloyd Filmed Girl Shy on Bunker Hill
- Keaton – Cops – and the First Baptist Church of Hollywood
- Harry Langdon – The Strong Man Part 2
- Help Please? – Silent Jailbreak – SOLVED
- How Harold Lloyd Filmed the Girl Shy Trolley Stunts
- Keaton’s Highland Goat Garage
- The Office – Film Noir – and Harold Lloyd
- How Harold Lloyd Filmed Safety Last!
- The Artist Locations – Part 6 – Uggie Saves The Day
- The Artist – Locations 1 of 5, Chaplin, and Pickford (repost)
- Mr. Keaton’s Neighborhood
- New York, Harold Lloyd, and Adam Sandler?!
- The Artist Locations Part 5 – Chaplin’s City Lights
- Chaplin’s Modern (Los Angeles) Times
- The Artist Locations Part 4, Bradbury, Chaplin, and Lloyd
- The Artist Locations Part 3, Harold Lloyd, and Safety Last!
- The Artist Locations Part 2, Roger Rabbit, and Buster Keaton’s Debut – One Week
- The Artist – Locations, Chaplin, and Pickford
- Charming Third Time for Seven Chances
- Win a Copy of Silent Visions in TCM December Contest
- Buster’s Manhattan Project – on Film
- Laurel and Hardy – Home at Last
- Chaplin – Keaton – Lloyd – One Block in Silent-Era Hollywood
- Chaplin’s Kid Autos – They Were What ?!?
- New Photos – Babe Ruth’s Orphanage Cameo in Speedy
- Buster’s Trains – One Week to Speak Easily
- Buster Keaton and Film Noir? – It’s Also True
- Cameo Squared – Lou Gehrig in Ruth’s Speedy Cameo
- Silent Era New York – Harold Lloyd’s Speedy – Part 1
- Stan, Ollie, and Harold – a Drive Through Bunker Hill
- Charlie Chaplin and Film Noir? – It’s Also True
- Harold Lloyd and Film Noir? – It’s True
- Buster and the Three Stooges at the Columbia Ranch – Part 2
- View Academy Lecture on The General Locations
- New locations from The General
- Safety Last! Mr. Epstein’s Writing on the Wall
- Harold Lloyd Safety Last! Downtown Tour
- Harold – Buster – and Bergdorf Goodman – NYC Then and Now
- Rare Chaplin Scenes in Downtown Los Angeles
- Stan Laurel in Chaplin’s Footprints
- Buster and the Three Stooges at the Columbia Ranch – Part 1
- College Days for Harold and Buster
- Buster … Shemp, Moe and Larry – Cops and Soup to Nuts
- Harold Lloyd’s Manhattan cigar
- Harold Lloyd – lasting impressions at Grauman’s Chinese
- Harold Lloyd Brooklyn – Speedy Tour
- Michael Scott (?!) and the Mayfair Hotel – admittedly OT
- Harold Lloyd on Deadman’s Island
- Chaplin’s Beverly Wilshire Cigar
- Stan Laurel in Buster’s Footprints
- Buster Keaton Steamboat Bill, Jr. locations
- Meet Buster in Goatland at the Silver Spray Pier
- Langdon on Larchmont
- Harry Langdon in The Strong Man
- Chaplin – A Film Johnnie at the Bryson
- Harold Lloyd Hollywood Tour
- Chaplin Medley of Then and Now Images
- Chaplin’s Very First Scene – Now a Jack-in-the-Box
- Tour of Chaplin’s The Kid
- Details Behind Video Tour of Chaplin Keystone Locations
- A Dozen Prominent Keaton Locations
- Buster Films Stunt Beside His Own Studio
Categories
- Angels Flight
- Brooklyn
- Bunker Hill
- Buster Keaton
- Chaplin Studio
- Chaplin Tour
- Charlie Chaplin
- Chinatown
- City Lights
- College
- Columbia
- Cops
- Daydreams
- Duck Soup
- Exposition Park
- Film Noir
- For Heaven's Sake
- Girl Shy
- Hal Roach Studios
- Harold Lloyd
- Harry Langdon
- Hollywood Tour
- Hot Water
- Keaton Studio
- Keaton Tour
- Keystone Studio
- Laurel and Hardy
- Lloyd Studio
- Lloyd Thrill Pictures
- Lloyd Tour
- Los Angeles Historic Core
- Manhattan
- Modern Times
- New York
- Oliver Hardy
- One Week
- Safety Last!
- Seven Chances
- Sherlock Jr.
- Speedy
- Stan Laurel
- Steamboat Bill, Jr.
- The Artist
- The Cameraman
- The Freshman
- The General
- The Goat
- The Kid
- The Office
- The Strong Man
- Three Stooges
- Uncategorized
- USC
- Venice
Archives
Silent Locations – Chaplin – Keaton – Lloyd (and more)- A Tale of Two Train Wrecks (and One Airport) – by Buster Keaton
- Bones of the Past – the Bones TV Pilot and Buster Keaton
- Hollywood 1926 – The Big Picture and How the Pieces Fit
- How Harold Lloyd Filmed Girl Shy on Bunker Hill
- Keaton – Cops – and the First Baptist Church of Hollywood
- Harry Langdon – The Strong Man Part 2
- Help Please? – Silent Jailbreak – SOLVED
- How Harold Lloyd Filmed the Girl Shy Trolley Stunts
- Keaton’s Highland Goat Garage
- The Office – Film Noir – and Harold Lloyd
Monthly Archives: July 2011
View Academy Lecture on The General Locations
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has posted the PowerPoint presentation I gave on July 20, 2011 concerning Buster Keaton’s Civil War comedy The General (1927). You can watch the presentation here. You can find a complete report … Continue reading
New locations from The General
On July 20, 2011, Kevin Brownlow screened Buster Keaton’s Civil War comedy The General (1927) as part of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences “Summer of Silents” film series, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Before … Continue reading
